LOS ANGELES — Out filmmaker Marina Rice Bader, profiled last month in LGBT Weekly, has launched an exclusive online contest to celebrate the success of her directorial debut Anatomy of A Love Seen. The filmmaker is personally saying “thank you” to her fans with 10 exclusive gift bags to be given out Dec. 27, Bader’s…
WASHINGTON – Focus on the Family claims its mission is to help families thrive. Yet to anyone paying attention, it’s clear the organization is focused on one specific kind of family, and instead spends a lot of time, energy and money advocating against equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people and their families….
GLSEN (the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network) today released state-level data from its biennial National School Climate Survey report that show that schools remain unsafe for the majority of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students. The latest edition of GLSEN’s National School Climate Survey, which first began in 1999 and remains one of…
The reintroduction of the gray wolf into the Yellowstone Park ecosystem has produced results that many did not envision nearly 20 years ago. The new Yellowstone Park is a metaphor for the balance that exists in the ecosystem we call life; what will occur when all LGBT people are treated equally? After decades of conflict…
It was dubbed the wedding of the year. After suffering homophobic heckling at their first ceremony in August, Gary Jackson and Oscar de la Salas’ October wedding redo in Coronado received many column inches in the press. Their story is well-known and Jackson and de la Salas became media celebrities. What is less well-known are…
Boy George has reunited with the band that brought him international stardom, Culture Club, for a new tour and album which is preceded by the lead single “More Than Silence”. With a career spanning over 30 years, the Grammy Award-winners first shot to international stardom in the 1980s as one of the U.K.’s biggest exports…
When you’ve seen as many LGBT-themed movies as I have, after a while the descriptor “gay coming of age” attached to a film makes me sigh. Really, another one? Part of my exhaustion with the genre is that they tend to have virtually identical plots, despite cultural or historic specifics, and another part of my…
A trial date of April 13, 2015 has been set for Tiffany LaToya Nowden, who is accused of stabbing her wife, Russina Vale, to death in their bed in their San Carlos home. Nowden, 39, appeared Nov. 3 in San Diego Superior Court and received the trial date several weeks after being ordered to stand…
A Bible quoting convicted rapist was sentenced Nov. 7 to 37 years to life in prison for sexually assaulting a woman he had met on the Christian Mingle dating Web site and another woman who came forward after his publicized arrest. Consecutive terms were handed down to Sean Patrick Banks, 39, by El Cajon Superior…
Join the Hillcrest Wind Ensemble (HWE) as they celebrate the holidays, Saturday, Dec. 13, 7 p.m. at the First Unitarian Universalist Church, 4190 Front St., next to UCSD hospital. The evening’s line up will feature music of Christmas, Hanukkah and New Year. Selections will include a “Christmas Pop Sing Along” and the more profound medley…
